WORLD REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2647, 18 October 1923, Page 4

WORLD REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT.

HOW SHALL WE MEET IT? Boudoir politicians insist that “a fair chance” be given to Soviet Russia. What does it mean? While it is true that so far not one of the civilsed nations has recognised the Soviet Government, the reason for it lies in the fact that immediately after the November Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Government itself declared war against the whole universe. On December 13th, Lenin and Trotsky issued an ordinance assigning two million rubles for international revolutionary propaganda purposes. In accordance with this decree, Soviet “ambassadors” were sent to all countries with instructions to promote revolutionary propaganda, ferment international dissension, and incite class hatred. Thus, Joft’e proceeded to Berlin; Vorovsky, to Stockholm; Finkelstein (Litvnoil), to’ London; Varshavsky (alias- Bronsky), to Vienna, and Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, to the United States. Everywhere these Soviet emissaries stirred up political mischief, and after a short sojourn the respective intelligence officers became keenly interested in their activities. In all countries the Soviet “embassies” have become centres of destructive revolutionary propaganda, directed against those very governments to which they were accredited. However, the main endeavours to organise revolutionary propaganda oh an international scale began in December, 1918, when the first International Communist Congress was summoned in Petrograd. The following countries were represented by delegates: —United States, England, North China, Austria, Holland, Germany, Serbia, Bulgaria, Finland, Turkestan, Buchara, Persia, India, Korea, France. CONCENTRATING ON THE ' * EAST. t The Soviet leaders are confronted with the fact that Western labour is difficult to move, and at present their main concentration is on the East. A congress of Mohammedans and Bolsheviks was held in Baku. It included representatives from Hedja’s, Syria, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan, Azarbaydjan, Anatolia and India. The Western world is still alarmingly uninformed about Soviet propaganda tactics. It fails to grasp the fait that most of the propaganda is camouflaged to meet the local, national, racial and religious- circumstances, and that moderate socialism and labour is used everywhere for the extreme ends sought of violent workE revolution. The chief centre is ill’ the East, but it in not expected to stay there. At present the sinister influence of the Third International is being felt practically in every country in the world. However backward particular nations may be, whatever their economic status is, Communist propaganda, makes its headway everywhere, appealing not*.so much to the common sense of the peoples as to their basest instincts, to their greed, envy and inborn indolence. Everywhere agents of Lenin and Trotsky are busy fomenting dissension, rivalry and class hatred. Wherever there is unrest one may lie sure to find a Bolshevist agitator “on the job.” ■ TO MEET THE ENEMY. For the sake of humanity, this enemy of Western civilisation must be defeated.

There can he no compromise with the Attilas of the Twentieth Century. To compromise is to surrender. It is only the coward who surrenders in the face of impending danger. There is no other issue than to accept the challenge. The strategic plan of the enemy is known. There is no mystery about it. This plan itself predetermines the measures of-defence to be adopted by those who are attacked. 'l’he enemy preaches class hatred, 'fhe answer to this challenge is cooperation between the classes. The enemy strives for economic destruction, which must, be counteracted by economic construction. The enemy seeks to undermine religious faith. Accordingly, the consolidation of religious faith and the fight against atheism must be urged. The enemy spreads the plague of internationalism. There is no other way to combat this plague than by giving support to the national ideal and national tradition. The enemy appeals to the ignorant. He uses the ignorance of the masses as a means of throwing them under his control. Ignorance can and must be combated by education. . The enemy is trying to dissolve the family because it is the nucleus of the present social order. There is,probably no task more urgent to-day than the protection of the family and its stabilisation. The enemy lias declared war on art and beauty, and accordingly, it has j become the duty of the enlightened part of humanity to cultivate art and beauty, to disarm brutality by aesthetics, to briug ltearer to the masses the immortal creations of genius. Such are the lines of defence, such are the tactics. It will be said by some: “Oh! hut these are matters merely for the old countries, they do not affect New Zealand.” That is just what the advocates of world-revolution want —apathy, indifference and the. conviction that all is safe and well. Hew Zealand, however, is not outside the circle of influence. The forces making,,for revolution are at work here.as elsewhere, and are regularly assisted by emissaries from

outside. The methods of progress are so subtle that our people fail to realise how widespread the influence has gone. The duty of all who think rationally is to combat this evil wherever it is found in the interests of our country, our Empire and of humanity. (Contributed by the N.Z. Welfare League).